This pop song, written with help from artificial intelligence, is actually super catchy

Modern music gets a lot of flack for sounding mass-produced, particularly genres like pop and country. Flow Machines is a project funded by European Research Council, and has created Artificial Intelligence tools that can compose music. The project's FlowComposer tool draws on a database of over 13,000 leadsheets, basic scores of the melodies and harmonies of tracks, ranging from the Beatles to Broadway hits. The tool can compose songs from this data automatically, or be used as a tool by composers, allowing musicians to create tracks that are a blend between automatic compositions and their own original work. While the concept of music partially composed by AIs may be frightening, particularly for music purists like myself, Flow Machines says the project doesn't want to replace human creativity and musicality.